Our Penguin Young Reader division has launched season 2 of the We Are YA podcast!
This season is filled with short episodes with different YA authors talking about how they’re doing during the time of COVID-19, as well as what they’re working on, and what they’re reading and watching! Be sure to share this with your teen & tween students so they can get messages directly from their favorite authors!
We’ve linked our current favorite episode (it changes every day!), with Ruta Sepetys, author of The Fountains of Silence, Salt to the Sea, Out of the Easy, and Between Shades of Gray. From there, you can find the rest of the season, including the most recent episodes with Tochi Onyebuchi, Marie Lu, Danielle Vega, and Laurie Halse Anderson.
We are pleased to share a new teacher’s guide for the As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. This is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Told in multiple first person narratives by each of the family members—including Addie herself—as well as
The American Library Association (ALA) has announced their 2026 literary award winners. Below you can find a selection of Penguin Random House titles that were among the winners. Explore the collection of award winners and honorees here. Alex Award Winner The Favorites The Girls Who Grew Big Hole in the Sky These Heathens What Kind
